The gun was reported to a faculty member at about 7:45 a.m. At 7:50 a.m. the suspected student was searched and a handgun was found in the student's backpack. No other weapons were found when the student's locker was searched....In an interview with K2 Radio, principal Diller spoke highly of the students and faculty.

"The whole thing from start to finish didn't even take five minutes. No injuries, no threats. The person made a bad choice. We are proud of our students for reporting the weapon."

What!?!? No swat team? No arresting the individual? No seven days in jail while being interrogated? No three year juvenile detention sentence totally ruining the individuals life? No suicide at age 23 because the individual wasn't able to build a decent life?

Just remember what happened the summer of 2001, it was the summer of shark attacks. Media focused their eye on the subject and reported on them. Stats were no worse that year than any other but it seemed like the oceans were swarming. Course once 3 planes had crashed never heard about it since.

Every time an airplane was diverted because of an unruly passenger, every time someone spilled the non-dairy creamer at work, or a diabetic opened a packet of artificial sugar, and all the other minor incidents that normally fall beneath the noise radar of the media... all of a sudden, make the national news.

Because we keep watching. And clicking. Over and over and over and over again.

Mirrorz:Was it really a Glock or are we just calling all handguns that?

It was an Arcus 98 double action in 9mm parabellum. Because the suspect's friends joked that Half-Life 3 was confirmed, over and over, and the suspect just wanted them to shut the hell up for once with that stupid meme, but the suspect couldn't fit a wrecking bar in their backpack.

moothemagiccow:TheEdibleSnuggie: Mirrorz: Was it really a Glock or are we just calling all handguns that?

I shall refer you to this:

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Oh god we're classifying murder weapons wrong on fark. This is so terrible. Back to your bomb shelter.

If it wasn't an actual Glock it's lazy journalism, akin to calling every SUV a Ford Explorer. Remember when Fark made fun of bad reporting instead of hashing out the political issue of the week in every thread?

Every time an airplane was diverted because of an unruly passenger, every time someone spilled the non-dairy creamer at work, or a diabetic opened a packet of artificial sugar, and all the other minor incidents that normally fall beneath the noise radar of the media... all of a sudden, make the national news.

Because we keep watching. And clicking. Over and over and over and over again.

We feed what we fear. Our hated for something only makes it grow. Nietzsche would have fun with this.

Every time an airplane was diverted because of an unruly passenger, every time someone spilled the non-dairy creamer at work, or a diabetic opened a packet of artificial sugar, and all the other minor incidents that normally fall beneath the noise radar of the media... all of a sudden, make the national news.

Because we keep watching. And clicking. Over and over and over and over again.

We feed what we fear. Our hated for something only makes it grow. Nietzsche would have fun with this.